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Vol. 66 No. 25
June 24, 2016

USAFWS: Deliberately Strikes Night

By Airman 1st Class Kevin Tanenbaum U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kevin Tanenbaum

99th Air Base Wing Public A airs A KC-135, assigned to the 509th Weapons Squadron, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., performs aerial refueling
on an F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 433rd Weapons Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., over the Nevada Test
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — e United States Air and Training Range during the United States Air Force Weapons School’s Deliberate Strike Night, June 16. DSN
Force is well known as the pinnacle of air superiority. is part of the nal seven day Advanced Integration portion of the Weapons School curriculum; testing stealth
and conventional airframes abilities to conduct attacks during the hours after the sun sets.
Guaranteeing this supremacy is the Airmen who wear the
coveted patch of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School. With
approximately 100 weapons o cers and enlisted specialists
graduating from the school every six months, these Airmen
are truly top-notch in their elds.

At the conclusion of nearly 400 hours of graduate-level
academics and combat training missions, the Weapons School
curriculum culminates with a week-long series of exercises
known as Advanced Integration.

Composed of six di erent missions, Advanced Integration
contains one of the most dynamic pertaining to fourth and h
generation airframes. is is known as Deliberate Strike Night.

“DSN is a large force exercise in the Weapons School Ad-
vanced Integration Phase involving in excess of 70 aircra and
Joint Department of Defense assets (from three services) against
a realistic near peer adversary,” said Lt. Col. Daniel S. Hoad-
ley, 325th Weapons Squadron commander. “It’s a graduation
level exercise for USAFWS students. It is the U. S. Air Force’s
premier training event focused on attacking an Integrated Air
Defense System.”

DSN re ects the degree of cutting-edge training provided by
the Advanced Integration portion of the Weapons School cur-
riculum by testing stealth and conventional airframes’ abilities
to conduct attacks during the hours a er sunset.
________________________ See USAFWS, on page 3

CAOC-N receives first weapons system upgrade in over decade

By Senior Airman Jake Carter them an ever increasing array of threats. ogy to counter and attack threats that could weapons system overhaul since 2004,” said
ough the average person may have to cause harm to the Air Force as well as the Lt. Col. Aaron Hatch, 505th TS commander.
99th Air Base Wing Public A airs United States. “We were able to pull this herculean e ort
protect themselves against attacks on bank o with partnerships at 505th Command
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — accounts or personal records, the United Due to the continual and evolving threats and Control Wing, team Nellis and Air
Since the 1990s, the world has seen unprec- States Air Force has the responsibility to in the cyber and space domains, the 505th Combat Command. At the end of the day
edented advances in technology. Although protect assets vital to national security. TS received its rst major weapons system when it is complete, we will have a weapons
these advances have led to countless ben- upgrade in over a decade. _________See CAOC N, on page 3
e ts, and a revolution in the way we live At Nellis Air Force Base, the 505th Test
our daily lives, they have also bring with Squadron, also known as Combined Air “We are currently going through a CA-
Operations Center-Nellis, is using technol- OC-N 2.0 upgrade, and it’s our rst major

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